The map the commission released tilts districts in Cincinnati and Toledo further right and Akron further left.

In a new report, Redrawing the Lines, New America’s Education Funding Equity Initiative shows how better school district boundaries can make school funding more fair and school systems more diverse.

Republicans and Democrats are scrambling across the country to revisit the maps and district lines that will shape the political battles ahead in the midterms.

Maps do more than show us where we are or help us find where we need to go. They are powerful cultural documents, reflecting – and often shaping – the values, priorities and secrets of the societies ...